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Mobile TV

French MNOs 'tax for exclusivity'

France’s three mobile network operators; Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom, have told president Nicolas Sarkozy that they would back his concept of eliminating advertising on public TV by levying a tax on mobile TV operators (and ISPs) in return for a guarantee there will be no more 3G operators. This would leave Iliad’s Free subsidiary […]

January 28, 2008

DVB-SH passes 3G+ test

A DVB-SH pilot jointly performed by SFR and Alcatel-Lucent from July to December 2007, has enabled both companies to validate the fundamental assumptions for the deployment of a DVB-SH network co-localised, for its terrestrial part, with an existing commercial 3G+ network. The tests proved that it is possible to reuse the 3G+ sites, towers and […]

January 18, 2008

Broadcasters align to expand French mobile TV

French broadcasters Canal Plus Group, TF1 and M6 have entered into an alliance with a number of other French TV firms in an attempt to expand the country's mobile TV market. The trio have signed a mobile TV charter along with AB Groups, Bollore, LagardereActive, NextRadioTV and NRJ Groupe. The alliance's remit calls for the […]

January 17, 2008

MultiChoice licenses onHandTV from S3

Silicon & Software Systems (S3) have announced that South African Pay-TV operator MultiChoice has licensed S3's onHandTV Software Development Kit (SDK) for DVB-H to further develop their interactive Mobile Broadcast TV services. S3 is bringing their detailed product expertise and market knowledge to bear in this close collaboration with MultiChoice.

January 16, 2008

3.5G drives mobile broadband growth

3.5G is driving mobile broadband growth around the globe, with a rapid increase in the number of commercial HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) networks being rolled out. The number of commercial HSDPA networks launched worldwide grew by 69 per cent last year, according to a survey by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) — a […]

January 11, 2008

Fox brings Premier League to V CAST

The Fox Soccer Channel is now delivering video highlight content from England's football Premier League to V CAST Video-enabled phones. The relationship makes Verizon Wireless the first wireless distributor of Fox Soccer Channel's exclusive Premier League mobile highlight package, delivering more than 35 video clips per week, including near-live, in-game coverage to V CAST Video […]

January 10, 2008

Ocean Blue and Sunplus mobile TV platform

Ocean Blue Software, the UK-based digital TV software specialist, and Sunplus Technology Company, the Asian silicon systems provider, have collaborated to develop a portable Freeview DVB-T platform with full interactive features. The new development will provide 'red button' functions such as text services and access to alternative video streams in Freeview DVB-T TVs

January 10, 2008

US mobile broadcast, another platform

Samsung Electronics, MobiTV, Nokia Siemens Networks, Rohde & Schwarz and SES Americom IP Prime are set to demonstrate a national distribution platform to enable mobile TV services in the US using local broadcast TV spectrum. The platform is planning to showcase a complete mobile TV technology solution in 2008, with consumer trials planned in US […]

January 10, 2008

LG enhance mobile TV

Woo Paik, LG’s chief technology officer, has announced the firm’s new mobile TV vision at CES 2008. MPH – or Mobile Pedestrian Handheld – is due to revolutionise US mobile TV, Paik said, bringing live digital broadcasts to mobile phones, notebook computers, personal media players, GPS units, and in-car TV sets. Developed with Zenith and […]

January 8, 2008

TRAI: India should auction mobile TV licences

India’s telecoms regulator has recommended auctioning licences for broadcasting mobile television services. Foreign investment in a provider will be allowed up to 74 per cent, but no more than 20 percent must be owned by broadcasting companies, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its draft recommendations. Operators that win licences will automatically be […]

January 4, 2008